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On Balsall Street East, in Balsall Common
What it's like at CV7 7FQ: every home that has sold on Balsall Street East since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
4 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Balsall Street East; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 64 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Balsall Street EastSemi-detached | Aug 1996 | £89,950 | 107 m² | £841/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Balsall Street EastSemi-detached | Jan 2023 | £466,586 | 112 m² | £4,166/m² | 2 |
| 5, Balsall Street EastSemi-detached | Mar 2021 | £410,000 | 98 m² | £4,184/m² | 4 |
| 7, Balsall Street EastSemi-detached | Sept 2020 | £442,000 | 156 m² | £2,833/m² | 2 |
| 9, Balsall Street EastDetached | Nov 2015 | £757,000 | 232 m² | £3,263/m² | 2 |
| 15, Balsall Street EastDetached | Nov 2007 | £620,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 17, Balsall Street EastDetached | Oct 2024 | £540,000 | 106 m² | £5,094/m² | 2 |
| 19, Balsall Street EastDetached | Jul 2015 | £447,000 | 198 m² | £2,258/m² | 1 |
| 21, Balsall Street EastDetached | Jul 2023 | £660,000 | 184 m² | £3,587/m² | 1 |
| 23, Balsall Street EastDetached | Apr 2026 | £750,000 | 930 m² | £806/m² | 2 |
| 25, Balsall Street EastSemi-detached | Mar 2005 | £392,600 | 223 m² | £1,761/m² | 1 |
| 29, Balsall Street EastSemi-detached | Jul 2013 | £370,000 | 175 m² | £2,114/m² | 5 |
| 31, Balsall Street EastDetached | Aug 2015 | £485,000 | 145 m² | £3,345/m² | 2 |
| 35, Balsall Street EastDetached | Jul 1999 | £229,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 37, Balsall Street EastDetached | Aug 2014 | £705,000 | 189 m² | £3,730/m² | 2 |
| 39, Balsall Street EastDetached | May 2002 | £420,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 41, Balsall Street EastDetached | Dec 2015 | £720,000 | 186 m² | £3,871/m² | 2 |
| 43, Balsall Street EastDetached | Sept 2022 | £835,000 | 203 m² | £4,113/m² | 1 |
| 45, Balsall Street EastDetached | Jun 2018 | £960,000 | 341 m² | £2,815/m² | 4 |
| 47, Balsall Street EastSemi-detached | Jun 2021 | £493,000 | 159 m² | £3,101/m² | 2 |
| 49, Balsall Street EastSemi-detached | Dec 2002 | £162,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 51, Balsall Street EastDetached | Feb 2010 | £400,000 | 160 m² | £2,500/m² | 3 |
| 59, Balsall Street EastDetached | Aug 2017 | £560,000 | 171 m² | £3,275/m² | 2 |
| 61, Balsall Street EastDetached | Jun 2021 | £675,000 | 166 m² | £4,066/m² | 3 |
| 63, Balsall Street EastDetached | Jul 2022 | £477,000 | 91 m² | £5,242/m² | 1 |
| 65, Balsall Street EastDetached | Jul 2023 | £735,000 | 179 m² | £4,106/m² | 3 |
| 67, Balsall Street EastDetached | Oct 2021 | £645,000 | 178 m² | £3,624/m² | 1 |
| 69, Balsall Street EastDetached | Jan 1998 | £168,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 71, Balsall Street EastDetached | Dec 2021 | £617,500 | 158 m² | £3,908/m² | 4 |
| Nine Elms, Balsall Street EastDetached | Feb 2002 | £240,000 | – | – | 1 |
| The Elms, 11, Balsall Street EastDetached | Jan 2024 | £950,000 | 224 m² | £4,241/m² | 4 |
| Willow Cottage, 49, Balsall Street EastSemi-detached | Oct 2020 | £350,000 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 48% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Berkswell, a short drive or bike ride (1.5 km), with 285k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Kemps Green Road, 50 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 188); 9 departures an hour from the 6 stops within a 5-minute walk.
This is car country: only 8% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Balsall Common Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (500 m); 76% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Heart of England School, 600 m away; Attainment 8: 47.2 · 8.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Heart Of England Co-Operative Society, 750 m away; Shell Waitrose Balsall Common - Food Business (750 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Balsall Common & Meriden Group Practice (1.3 km), with Balsall Common Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (850 m).
For a haircut, Westwood is 850 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Warwick Hospital, 12 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 67% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 67% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 7 restaurants and cafés, 5 pubs and bars.
Sumatrah is the closest café or restaurant (750 m), and White Horse the nearest pub (750 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 43 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 46 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 62% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
The nearest park is Willow Park, 750 m away; for exercise, Lakes at Lavender Hall (1.5 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.1 µg/m³).
For holidays, Birmingham is 9.5 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 48% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 25% are 65 or over.
It's highly educated: 47% of adults have a degree.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
9 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Stables at Frogmore Grange | II | 170 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
Meriden and Solihull East constituency: Saqib Bhatti MP (Conservative), since December 2019. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 4,584 (10.4%), turnout 60%. Vote shares: Conservative 38%, Labour 28%, Reform UK 20%, Liberal Democrat 8%.
3 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near CV7 7FQ →
Nearest: Rutland Water Sykes Lane · about 88 min
Nearest: Chasewater Railway · about 39 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 2 of 50 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.1% | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.6% | 0.3% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 89.0% | 91.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 2.9% | 1.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.2% | 6.8% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 1.9% | 0.4% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Solihull since 2011.
police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 64 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.